I'm getting confuseded.If the top of the growing pseudostem is cut off, it dies. So in Evan's 4th picture obviously the pseudostem was cut off above the growing point sometime after it had started to die back for the winter? When I have cut the winter carnage back in the spring sometimes I will cut it too far down and the tree is a goner. But sometimes I will start higher up the pseudostem, and I will have those inner cores start to come up. I almost always cut back in the spring, again that lazy gardener gene I have.
The Basjoo is interesting, I've looked it up, it's also called Japanese Fiber banana,
ugh,other folks have said the fruit is not sweet. That last photo is magnifico though, big, tall, and massive is good! My Ice Cream pups enough, it sounds like the Basjoo is prolific also.
